Participating in the pre-school category our shortfilm ‘Schrecken ohne Ende’ by Max Stöhr, Michael Sieber and Sandra Brandstätter was awarded at this year’s Japan Prize. Along with the ceremony the film will have its premiere on Japanese television as well – synchronised in Japanese! Domo arigato Nippon!
The second season of ‘The Amazing World of Gumball’ is nominated in three categories at this year’s children’s BAFTA. Along with ‘Room on the Broom’ it is nominated in ‘Animation in 2013’. Above that it will compete in the ‘BAFTA Kids’ Vote – Television in 2013′ and ‘Writer in 2013’ categories. ‘Adventure Time’ is also nominated in the ‘International in 2013′ category. For this show we worked together with Cartoon Network on the episode ”A Glitch Is A Glitch’. We are prouuude.
The 2D team will join us for the third season of ‘The Amazing World Of Gumball’ very soon. They will be followed by the rendering and compositing team later on. Many artists from last year will return, but there are also a bunch of new people coming to Ludwigsburg for the first time. While the veterans may remember people and events on this picture, the new guys can get a feeling for what the studio is like. We are eagerly awaiting your arrival. Group hug!
Here are some impressions of how the character ‘Björn’ from ‘Trolltag’ came to life. Sandra Brandstätter made the design, Klaus Morschheuser created the clay-model and Christian Höhn took care of the shading.
Thanks to the whole team for working with us on the film.
A few weeks ago, we already posted a little teaser of our latest shortfilm by Klaus Morschheuser and Johannes Weiland. This Sunday, September 15th, ‘Trolltag’ (Troll Day) has its German TV premiere. It is part of the children’s TV show ‘Siebenstein’ starting at 10:35 on ZDF KIKA.
Our shortfilm ‘The Princess, the Prince and the green-eyed Dragon’ by Bin-Han To and Jakob Schuh will be shown at this year’s O-TONi Filmfestival for Children and Teenager in Breest, Germany. It will be part of the Animation Shortfilm section supported by AG Kurzfilm starting at 14:00 CET on August, 25th. If you pass by Burg Klempenow, you should consider to attend – a castle seems to be a proper location for watching a movie about a princess, a prince and a green-eyed Dragon.
We have some good news from Hungary and Korea:
Our film ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’ by Johannes Weiland and Uwe Heidschötter was awarded at this year’s Kecskemét Animation Film Festival (KAFF) in Hungary and Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival (SICAF) in Korea. Congratulations to the whole Team!
If you haven’t had the opportunity to watch our latest shortfilms yet, you can make good for that soon. Within the next days, KIKA will show ‘Die Prinzessin, der Prinz und der Drache mit den grünen Augen’, ‘Das Bild der Prinzessin’ and ‘Schrecken ohne Ende’ within the children’s series ‘Siebenstein’:
Thursday – 18/07, 9:10am – ‘Die Prinzessin, der Prinz und der Drache mit den grünen Augen’
Friday – 19/07, 9:10am – ‘Das Bild der Prinzessin’
Monday – 22/07, 9:10am – ‘Schrecken ohne Ende’
Here are two pictures of one of our current projects. Directed by Johannes Weiland and Klaus Morschheuser, designed by Sandra Brandstätter, the film is about trials and tribulations of a girl, a mountaintop and a lion in a ballet tutu.
It will have its premiere this autumn within the ZDF kids series ‘Siebenstein’.
If you are wondering whether we did anything else besides ‘Gumball’ and ‘Schrecken ohne Ende’ last year, the answer is yes! We were allowed to dip into the land of Ooo to create 3D Animations, Models and Rigs for the ‘Adventure Time’ Episode ‘The Glitch’.
Many thanks to our colleagues Tobias von Burkersroda, John Coomey, Mark Feller, Robert Lehman, Parzival Röthlein, Peter Ruschel, Jakob Schuh and Max Stöhr who worked on this project.
If you attend this year’s ‘Goldener Spatz’ in Erfurt and Gera, you might want to take a chance watching ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’.
It will be screened twice within the category ‘Animation’. The first screening is on May, 28th at 15:30 at UCI 4 in Gera. The second one is on May, 30th at 11:15 at CineStar 4 in Erfurt.
If you are lucky, it might give you a fresh winter breeze on a hot sunny day.
Photo by ITFS
The Trickfilmfestival in Stuttgart ended with a very nice surprise. Our short film “Schrecken ohne Ende” was awarded in the category Tricks for Kids. Congratulations to the directors Max Stöhr and Michael Sieber as well as the whole team. For a complete list of the credits go to Soi’s website and click on the very first picture in our work-section.
If you haven’t seen it yet, you can watch the complete film online on the ZDF’s website.
Our latest short film “Schrecken ohne Ende” as well as the Gumball episode “The Job” will be screened at this year’s ITFS on Sunday, 28th of April, 2:00 pm at the Metropol. In the same screening last year’s BBC 1 Christmas special “Room on the Broom” will be shown for the first time in Germany.
Also, there is the chance to watch “Der Kleine und das Biest” on April, 27th at 9:00 pm at the special jubilee screening “20 Festival – 20 Filme”. Furthermore you will have the chance to watch “The Gruffalo’s Child” in the open on Thursday 25th at 3:00 pm on Schlossplatz.
Finally, two of our co-founders, Saschka Unseld and Jakob Schuh, will give an insight on their work on April, 26th. At 2:00 pm Saschka will present Pixar’s most recent short film “The Blue Umbrella” at the König-Karl-Halle as part of the FMX. Jakob will talk about the work on his movies at 8:00 pm at the Metropol.
Update:
Shortly after the start of this year’s ITFS, we have a little update on our blog posting. The short films ‘Schrecken ohne Ende’ and ‘Room on the Broom’ will be screened on Sunday, 28th at 4 pm at the Mercedes-Benz Museum. ‘The Job’ will be shown at 2:30 pm at Metropol.
Besides that you can also watch ‘Schrecken ohne Ende’ on April, 27th at 3 pm at Gloria and on April, 28th at 4 pm at the Mercedes-Benz Museum.
Saschka will also give an insight of his work on ‘The Blue Umbrella’ as part of the Pixar studio presentation on the ITFS at Gloria at 5 pm on April, 27th.
